What is Wrong with 'Disclosure Day"
Saw 'Disclosure Day' last night. Everyone says it is a dud so I didn't expect much. They shot a bunch of the car chases just west of me and for about three days in May of 2025 we could hear squealing tires and loud engines.
The whole movie is a chase. Like a Road Runner cartoon but supposedly serious. You don't care about anyone because they don't seem like real people and most of them are possessed by something that happens to them after visitations from obvious CGI animals that include a cardinal and deer.
It got worse as it went on. It relies on 'world building' -- rules and paranormal dynamics that you have to tell the audience about in order to make them understand the stakes and who's winning. That is a huge handicap unless it is something really simple like "sunlight can kill vampires". Spielberg kept introducing new rules and abilities as it went on so it was like watching a cricket match played by Harry Potter and the refs have ADD and are on acid.
Others have said the film should have been mostly what happens AFTER the disclosure, not 120 minutes of chase scenes leading up to it and then wimping out on the aftermath of the disclosures. I agree. Did the aliens teach us their gift for empathy? That would have been more upbeat and imaginative.
My favorite dialog from the film is "I don't know what's going on!" and "I don't know why I am doing this!"
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